Parents are the child's most important teachers, yet they have no formal training for their responsibilities. "Top Students/Top Parents" provides the training parents need to assure their child's success in school & adult life. It offers basic strategies for raising well-educated, responsible children with high values, self-respect & self-esteem. This comprehensive teaching guide is reader friendly, practical & useful, having over 1000 fun, creative activities & ideas to help parent fulfill their teaching responsibilities. The author, a mother & dedicated educator with 20 years of classroom experience, knows parents' worries & concerns & addresses them with solutions that make sense...& really work. She shows parents how to make every contact with their child a learning experience. Her suggestions & activities promote family togetherness while incorporating valued skills of reading, writing & language. Some chapters are: "Language Development," "Family Literacy," "Home Reading/Writing Activities," "Vocabulary Enrichment," "Homework," "Following Directions," "Memory," "Sight Words," "Alphabet," "Communication," "Responsibility," "Social Problems," "Belief," "Praise/Rewards," "Educational Art" & "Learning Incentives." Top Students/Top Parents is truly a "must read" manual for all parents, teachers & day care providers.